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OK, it's in the wrong key. Needs to be transposed into key of C. Then you have C, Am, G, F, and it is fingerpicked. The words, "younger than the mountains," should be followed with blowin' like a breeze (breezes blow, not grow).
Am G F
I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour
C F
she calls me, radio reminds me of my
G Am G
home far away. Drivin down the road I
F F
get the feelin' that I should have been
G G7
home yesterday, yesterday.

Beg to differ on the key, Brent. I just played along with it on Youtube and the chords work as written. And I could swear it sounds like JD sings "growing like a breeze." Makes more sense your way, and I'll sing "blowing like", until Miss Annie herself tells me otherwise.

well since I guess I'm older than all of you. I remember in 1968 I think it was. I was on a highway roadside park eating with a group called The Lane Gang...yeah you probably never heard of them. We have a transistor radio on the table...they didn't have other things and cassettes I think had just been invented but eight track was still the rage. We heard this song by this funny sounding guy singing and since we were going to Nashville to play a gig with some big named country folks it just struck us that we should learn that song especially since the lead singer was from Nashville and he felt like he was going home and we were going to be staying with his family in Possom Hollow Tennessee. We grabbed a flat top out of the bus, it was in the key of G which is the same key I sing in which made it conventient and we learned the song in about five minutes and was doing it in five part harmony before we got back on teh bus. We played it the next night in the Vanderbilt Field House with 20000 people in the audience and boots randolph and Chet atkins on the bill. People thought it was our own work...wish it was. JD didn't write the song. he got a phone call from someone in Washington DC where he was playing in Geroge Town and after finishing his gig he went over to their place and worked out the arrangement. They recorded it later that day and had him sing The lead part since he had worked it all out and it fit his voice so well. Just some trivia for you. I've been singing it now for about forty years...I was about 15 on that trip and these are the words that I sing and in the key that I do it in. Also, if you listen to the original I think you'll find it's all done accoustic and it's a banjo that does the finger picking. The guitar is strumming. If memory serves me correctly.

Well Mr. Purdy, you don't have me beat by much on age, but you are way ahead in audience size by that one gig alone. Whatcha think of this here wide world web the kids put together? Beats trying to learn chords off'n a Lloyds Cassette Recorder, dunnit? Welcome to Chordie, friend.

I play this song in G also and the song is always a crowd pleaser (they usually sing along). As for who wrote this song, it was Bill and Taffy Danoff and John Denver. Bill and Taffy had started the song and John helped finish it. All three are listed on the credits.

This song is in the right key. I'm from WV and it's sung at the end of every WVU football and basketball game. It's embeded in my mind and I know its right. The only thing that might need to be changed is the F#M because I don't think thats quite right

Good grief, we are all on Chordie to help each other out, especially the new and upcomming musicians, so let us not bicker and get petty with each other. SAWGUY try d-d-u-u-d-u,( we musicians have our own unique meathods ) I strongly recemond you listen to the song over and over again until you figure it out on your own. Trust me it's easer than you think.
COWBOY MOE